Old birds are not caught with chaff
Старых птиц на мякину не поймаешь.
Стреляного (старого) воробья на мякине не проведешь.
Другие пословицы:
- Fish and company stink in three days
- The best fish swim near the bottom
- To set the wolf to keep the sheep
- If the sky falls, we shall catch larks
- The mountain has brought forth a mouse
- Catch the bear before you sell his skin
- It is a poor mouse that has only one hole
- It is a good horse that never stumbles
- Burn not your house to rid it of the mouse
- That cock won't fight
- To buy a pig in a poke
- The last straw breaks the camel's back
- To put (set) the cart before the horse
- Honey is not for the ass's mouth
- While the grass grows the horse starves